Chinese SIM Farms and AI Chatbots Are Grooming and Radicalizing Americans Online
A chilling new report reveals that Chinese SIM farms and AI chatbots are being used to infiltrate American online communities, spread propaganda, and radicalize young people — all under the radar of U.S. authorities.
Intelligence experts warn that millions of fake social media accounts are being generated through Chinese-operated SIM farms, which use vast banks of mobile SIM cards to create authenticated, undetectable personas. These accounts, often powered by advanced artificial intelligence, are flooding platforms like Reddit and Discord to manipulate public opinion, deepen political polarization, and even incite violence.
“They’re able to use this [SIM] network to initiate social media accounts by the millions,” said one intelligence analyst involved in a joint federal investigation. “Our population is being literally divided and radicalized to destroy our nation.”
The New Weapon of Influence: Chatbots That Can Groom You
Among the most disturbing revelations is the existence of a chatbot program designed to simulate 27 different personalities — capable of befriending, grooming, and manipulating users into adopting extremist beliefs.
“It’s just a chatbot, and it has very little human supervision,” the analyst explained. “It can pretend to be anyone — a political activist, a friend, even a mentor — and it’s designed to guide users toward specific ideological positions.”
This digital grooming process begins in ordinary online conversations, often on political or cultural threads, before gradually steering targets toward divisive narratives. According to investigators, the chatbots are linked to Chinese-built SIM farms, where AI systems are paired with mass-registered phone numbers to create realistic social media profiles capable of passing multifactor authentication tests.
SIM Farms: The Silent Infrastructure Behind Online Warfare
Federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Secret Service have raided multiple SIM farms in the New York City area, uncovering hundreds of servers containing up to 512 SIM cards each. These cards enable the creation of millions of online identities capable of making calls, sending texts, and operating on virtually every major social media platform.
Each farm, analysts say, functions like a “digital army base” — capable of launching coordinated online influence operations that can disrupt elections, attack public figures, and promote radical causes.
The data from every operation is reportedly copied back to China under that nation’s cybersecurity laws, which compel all technology companies to share information with the Ministry of State Security.
“Everything that’s happening on those devices is going back to China,” the analyst said. “Even when cartels, Antifa, or even U.S. government employees use them.”
Reddit and Discord: The New Battlegrounds
Platforms like Reddit and Discord are reportedly 80% bot-infiltrated, according to open-source intelligence contractors tracking online propaganda. These bot networks spread both far-left and destabilizing content, often masquerading as grassroots voices.
“Most of them are designed to push highly progressive narratives while sowing violent division,” one investigator said. “They’re subtle — they don’t mention guns or violence directly — but they reinforce anger, resentment, and ideological extremism.”
While Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has reduced bot activity by requiring paid verification, other platforms remain saturated. “X is maybe 20-30% bots,” the analyst said, “but Reddit is an absolute disaster.”
A Chinese Cyber War — Hosted on American Telecoms
Experts say this digital infiltration constitutes nothing less than a Chinese act of war, enabled by the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure itself.
“Our own telecoms are hosting a Chinese act of war against us,” one analyst warned. He called for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose massive fines — up to $200 million per carrier — on companies found hosting SIM farm operations.
The analyst also urged Congress to criminalize foreign-led radicalization campaigns targeting American citizens. “Until we make ‘intentionally radicalizing U.S. citizens’ a crime,” he said, “the government won’t even look into it.”
America’s Unseen Information Crisis
The scale of the Chinese SIM farms and AI chatbots operation remains uncertain, with estimates ranging from 80 to 100 known sites across the United States. Each location can house thousands of virtual phone numbers, feeding a propaganda network capable of influencing millions of Americans daily.
The analyst summed up the crisis as a national security catch-22:
“We won’t discover how urgent and destructive this problem is until we investigate it. And we won’t investigate it until we realize how urgent and destructive it really is.”
Unless the government moves quickly, experts warn that America’s next great conflict may not begin with missiles — but with messages, memes, and machines pretending to be our friends.
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